[Robkk]

the reply above me is spam do not worry about that.

@oscarguy

Thanks for your input. Do I find the membership plugins on the regular wordpress site or here on the bbpress site?

I guess either one really , it is just the same data. Search “bbpress membership”

you would probably get

Paid Memberships Pro
s2Member
bbPress extension for membermouse
Premium membership with Bitcoin
Restrict Content Pro – bbPress

There are probably more but might require some searching on google , you should test them out on a test site before installing on a production site.

[thierryyyyyyy]

I already have such a WordPress Network.
I use “multi-domain” to link different domains …

I interprete your “use WordPress as CMS not as blog” as : use “show static page” instead of “show last posts” in “customization”…
So I should put the bbPress root template as this static page. and fix the root folder as “” ?
that what you suggest ?
(I’m fighting to test it, I did not succeed yet but for stupid DNS problems…)

Thank you

[Robkk]

Is there then a way to merge users? So that if someone registered on the WordPress site and separately on the forums that afterwards they can be combined?

You can delete a user then attribute their content to another user

We have a members-only section for our forums. I understand these forums will be made public and we would need to hide them, but is there a way to set up users that have access only to certain sections while the general public has access to everything else? I don’t want to assign all of our members the ability to edit content on the site, just have access to a members only forum.

There are a couple of membership plugins that are compatible with bbPress, you could also use the bbPress private groups plugin.

Will this create two separate MySQL databases? Will the old phpBB still be there and operational? Can the two be used simultaneously and will content posted in one cross-post to the other once merged to bbpress?

Your phpbb data will be imported into the WordPress database where bbPress would usually be. Cross posting I’m not sure. You should test this out on a test site to make sure everything is working okay and to your expectations.

[paulchrisluke]

Site: http://www.rexydesign.com/forums

Hello! I recently migrated my site to a VPS. Ever since then, the “notify me of follow-up replies via email” has not been working. I downloaded a plugin to test email using PHP mail() function, and those emails do come in. However, the BBpress ones do not.

I contacted my host about this, and this is what they sent me:

“I have reviewed the server and was able to confirm that it is currently able to send email using the telnet command. Now that you are on a server all emails sent from the server must relay through our relay server which is: dedrelay.secureserver.net please ensure that your scripts and plugins that send email are configured to send through the mentioned relay server on port 25, failure to do so will result in emails not sending.”

Any help would be appreciated!

[benjaminniess]

Hey krazen, I have the same problem and I created a mu-plugin to solve it. I tried the latest version of BBP but the problem is still here.

The gist is here if you want: https://gist.github.com/benjaminniess/578118e0c0c20bf94fd5

[Robkk]

This might be normal behavior, I will test it out though.

[Robkk]

This is caused because bbPress is rendering a certain template in your theme , this happens to be a template that is full width without a sidebar.

Is your theme a premium theme or a free theme??

If it is free, I can check it out and tell you what you need to do.

If it is premium , the theme authors will have to help you as I cannot just buy a theme just to test it.

see if this guide can help you though?? It tells you about modifying the main template , you can use this to put the sidebar back in.

If you have any questions about it or suggested improvements please let me know.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Robkk]

Yeah you are correct , I just tested it myself and see the issue.

All I can recommend is either contacting the plugin author , or find an alternative to that plugin.

[Robkk]

@manni1970

I just translated my test site into German, I don’t see an issue??

As long as you have the latest active versions files it should work.

Did you get your .po and .mo files from here??

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x/de/default

[kwelch007]

Hello,

I have WordPress 4.2.2 with bbPress 2.5.7, bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1, and bbPress Notify (No-Spam) 1.8.1 and WP SMTP.

Everything is working fine except for the Email Notifications from the forums. I really need to get this to work. I’ve tried various permissions changes, etc. WordPress itself works fine and when I send test emails, they come through, but I don’t get the auto-notifications.

Can anybody help???

Thanks
Kendell

[OscarGuy]

I did some testing and found the following plugin was the only one preventing me from seeing the Forum option in the dashboard menu. Has anyone else had this issue or know how to fix it so I can have both active at the same time?

Find and Replace
Version 2.0 | By Ramon Fincken, Bas Bosman

I assume that something in the Find and Replace plugin, which adds its own option in the dashboard menu, is blocking the BBPress menu item from displaying.

[hannah.headrick]

Hi,

I am building a forum (http://144.130.51.45/~bslifestyle/forums/forum/bespoke-lifestyles-forum/) with BBPress Version 2.5.7 and can’t get the sidebar to show up on either the page listed or what may be the forum index (http://144.130.51.45/~bslifestyle/forums/). I have contacted the support team for the theme I am using (Dante) and they have said:

“Hi,

Just checked and the same is happening with the other WordPress themes.
You have the latest version of the plugin but looks something is wrong.

Try to upload the plugin files again, if it don’t work you should contact BBPress support to help you to show the sidebar.”

Can I have some help getting the sidebar to display?

Also, as an aside, how can I get sidebars to show up on other forum pages? I have tried multiple plugins and so far none have worked (may be related to the original issue).

Thanks

[darlingstewie]

I am pretty much out of ideas as to what to do.

Our website is http://www.geekgirlpenpals.com

We have Godaddy managed wordpress hosting. I call their customer support and they have no idea what’s wrong.

We were using the Hueman theme for a long time, and suddenly yesterday the BBpress plugin began acting up and causing a 500 internal server error. It caused those errors on both Posts and Forums. The error only appears to people who are logged in.

Once I deactivated BBpress, the error was gone (but so were the forums)

Since I knew it was BBpress, I uninstalled and reinstalled BBpress plugin. That did not fix it

I turned on the Twenty Fourteen theme and that seems to show the forums fine. So I went ahead and installed a new theme, thinking it must be a theme issue.

The theme worked great for about 5 hours and showed the forums and blog (while logged in, which is when the problem was occuring) but now as of 5 minutes ago – exact same problem.

Feel free to use username jimbob and password jimbobsauce to test the Internal Server Error

HELP 🙁

[Doctor Psyringe]

Revival!

It gets hilariously worse when running a MultiSite – Calling a SubSite “Forum” – then working around this issue. The bigger your site, the less you want everything to weigh for User loading and Server handling. There’s now an option in the bbPress Settings called ‘Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)’ – I’ve unchecked it. I’m willing to bet I run into *at least* one hundred different user issues now that I’ve done so. This was definitely designed for the smaller blog, even with it’s latest updates I’m having unrelated issues not addressed in documentation.

I’m an advanced User, too. As cool as BuddyPress is, it’s pretty much useless without bbPress integration. As much as people would like to pretend (yep, you’re dreaming) their running their own “social media website”, it’s an unrealistic dream compared to running a Forum. Financing that dream over the Forum is poor form, but w/e.

By the time it gets addressed, the advanced users with thousands of of hits a day wont change it. Why? Because of the Social Media Integration like Facebook, Twitter, and G+ – NOT BUDDYPRESS (which I run for other much different *fluffy* reasons). Likes and Shares are gold, it’s networking and sales. We will weigh our links; SHARING LINKS and LIKES; over making the url pretty for SEO at that point… no matter how terrific the fix.

8 years too late pretty much. I know it’s community driven – and that’s respectable. Doesn’t change the bigger picture, though, and imo this plugin outweighs BuddyPress in importance concerning the current evolution of WordPress itself.

[Robkk]

Just so you guys know WordPress comes with its own emoticons and also since the latest version you can post emojis.

wp-monalisa is a good plugin for custom smilies and stickers though.

It also has a cool feature to import some phpBB smiley packs.

[Stephen Edgar]

Found the patch, it needs lots of testing and I haven’t had the time to take even a cursory look at it yet https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2731, so lets leave that aside for now.

The code is here, I’m not sure your level of PHP knowledge but I’ll just add the link to it for now and will follow up after you’ve had a look at the code:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/admin/tools.php#L1134

[mmice]

Recalculating the topic for each post … Complete!
Recalculating the forum for each post … Complete!
Recomputing latest post in every topic and forum… Complete!

Trying “replies” tab:
No data received
ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

Recalculate the position of each reply loads for a while and than get’s white screen.

P.S. I already wrote about that. When i try to import not millions, but just 2 replies for the test, – have the same trouble (replies tab doesn’t open), but “Recalculate the position of each reply” fixes the problem.
But it just don’t work for millions (

[Robkk]

@mmice

bbPress v2 does not have a bb_posts database table , that is in bbPress v1 standalone. Which is what @netweb is referring that you are trying to import into the old v1 version even though your suppose to import to the latest version.

All of bbPress data is stored inside of the WordPress database tables.

In this guide I explain it.

Stored Database Data

[allmyhoney]

Hi there, I hoping someone can help me here. I have noticed that when a user posts for the very first time on my forum this error attached here is generated: http://i59.tinypic.com/ru5out.jpg

I think its some error related to the avatar being generated for the first time. When a user goes to post a second and third post and so on all is well. I am not sure if its something I need to fix on the server or in the plugin. I am using the latest version 2.5.7 of bbpress.

Maybe someone has seen this before and has a solution to it? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, James

[stiffmeister12]

I am having trouble getting my userpro avitars or profile pictures to be displayed on the bbpress home page and topics page where its says “freshness” or “latest post”. The profile pictures do show up when you go into a topic and reply but not on the home page. I want the little picture next to posters name under “freshness” or “latest post”. What code would i have to change and where can i find it? Im using a custom theme by the way.

[Omar]

Hi Robin W, thank you for providing the above code! It is just what I’ve been looking for!

I have a question. When I was testing, I noticed if I entered invalid login info, there was no redirect or error message, but it did display that in my address bar. What accounts for what happens on login failure?

Here is a sample that displayed in my browser after login failure:

Upside

The site I’m testing on is this one:

http://www.rashedlightsways.com

Also, small second question. It happens often that I’m on a site that I *think* I’ve registered on, but haven’t. If someone enters a login that is not correct AND that username doesn’t currently exist, is there a way to redirect to the registration page WITH that username?

So, for example, I type in username: MyFaveUser pw: 1234, and it doesn’t exist in my user table, so the user is redirected to “Hey, MyFaveUser doesn’t exist, but you can register with it! It’s available!” and then autofill the username field with MyFaveUser and leave the pw field blank?

I’ve been trying to bridge together new user registration and login in one field, and thought that might be a way to do it.

Thank you so very much!

– Omar
“Let Your Light Shine”

[shaquana_folks]

To Whom It May Concern,

I’m trying to configure forums properly for my site and for some reason the forum samples that I created from my back end are not showing up on my http://www.myloopnetwork.com website under the “Forums” tab. So I went to check out the Error Log from my hosting plan back end and saw this message:

20150609T144202: http://www.myloopnetwork.com/index.php
WordPress database error Table ‘wordpress_iomdefe35a.wp_jgts_bb_forums’ doesn’t exist for query DESCRIBE wp_jgts_bb_forums; made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), do_action(‘template_redirect’), call_user_func_array, bp_template_redirect, do_action(‘bp_template_redirect’), call_user_func_array, bp_screens, do_action(‘bp_screens’), call_user_func_array, bp_forums_directory_forums_setup, do_action(‘bbpress_init’), call_user_func_array, bp_forums_load_bbpress

There were a lot of other errors listed on that log but I already spoke to a representative of my hosting plan service and he said that he doesn’t see any other errors on that log from his end, except this one and another error (which I’m currently trying to resolve with the BuddyPress plug in moderators). So is there a reason why the above message is showing up? Please let me know what necessary steps I must take to get this resolved.

I’m currently testing everything out on the latest version of the Twenty Fifteen theme (ideally, I want to use this Magnus WordPress Theme [1.6 Version] for my site), I only have the BuddyPress plug in (now running a 2.3.1 version), the bbPress plug in (now running a 2.5.7 version) and a W3 Total Cache plug in (running a 0.9.4.1 version) currently activated. My hosting provider is with iPage, which is running a 5.0 PHP version and is running NGINX for their server. I hope all this info will be helpful in figuring out what’s going on. Any feedback or any other suggestions you may have will be greatly appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.

[ns]

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Wordpresss: Latest version
bbPress: Latest version
design theme: Original building
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I have one question.
In the page “Forum Replies Created”, can I show my replies data only?
If I can, which php file is, and how do I change code?
Or if I need to apply certain WordPress plugin, what is it?

The page “Forum Replies Created” shows all replies data which contains my relied data.
I’d like not to show other user’s replies data.

[johodges]

Thank you, Robin. I had done a post of my own to test, which worked. However, it now seems to be solved due to an update on Simple WordPress Membership (at least, it’s now visible, which is a relief). Fingers crossed!

[Robin W]

so we need to work out if

a) it is this individual post
or
b) the first reply of any topic

You’ll need to do some testing to establish which and come back